Part 1: Incarnation as Padmaratha

Now there is a very important city Ariṣṭā in the province Airāvata^[1] in East Videha in Dhātakīkhaṇḍadvīpa. In it there was a king, Padmaratha, who had great chariots, the sole mountain for the stumbling of the array of chariots of enemy-charioteers. After conquering all his enemies and subduing the whole earth, he did not care a straw for it, eager for subduing the Śrī of emancipation. He experienced the pastimes of strolling in gardens, water-sports in pools, attending sweet concerts by musicians, watching different gaits in his draft-animals, elephants, horses, et cetera, witnessing entertainment-festivals such as that of spring and Kaumudī, dramatic festivals with the ten kinds of drama,^[2] nāṭaka, et cetera, the dwelling in houses which were the counterparts of heavenly palaces, and the wearing of varied garments, decorations, ointments, and ornaments not from desire but from following the way of the people. After passing some time in this way, he, discerning, took initiation at the feet of the teacher Cittarakṣa. He accumulated bodymaking karma of a Tīrthakṛt by means of the sthānas, devotion to the Arhats, et cetera, and after death he became a god in (the palace) Puṣpottara in Prāṇata.